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• Huge explosions breach the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine
• The life and times of Nicky Bandini – Football Weekly
• Mexico now receives more remittances than China
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• Poland's government may seek to bar opponents from politics
• KAL's cartoon
• Europe will need to fundamentally reset its fiscal policies
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• A federal judge in Texas rules against a popular abortion medication
• America and China try to move past a new bump in relations
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• Hungary is becoming more important to China
• A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann
• 'Our government sees it as cute but unimportant': the musicians keeping France's Occitan language alive
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• The Supreme Court says Alabama's electoral map is discriminatory
• Autonomous vehicles are coming, but slowly
• The Philippines's once-proud Maoist insurgents are out of ammo
• Who will succeed Shia Islam's top man?
• Is the world economy in a debt trap?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Bakhmut and the spirit of Verdun
• The US Is Exporting Anti-LGBTQ Hate Online
• Roller coaster riders were trapped upside down for hours after mechanical failure
• Peru has an incompetent president and a discredited Congress
• How one pandemic made another one worse
• Quebec elects François Legault's fiercely nationalist party
• Where have all America's workers gone?
• Ancient Stars Spinning Near Milky Way Center Could Unravel Galactic Evolution
• Generative AI in Games Will Create a Copyright Crisis
• China may face more embarrassment over its human-rights record
• The world's deadliest war last year wasn't in Ukraine
• Some of Earth's Most Famous Art Started with Stardust
• Cristina Fernández, Argentina's vice-president, is attacked
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis Says Its Next Algorithm Will Eclipse ChatGPT
• Cheap vaccines could prevent millions of deaths from cervical cancer
• Pete Buttigieg Loves God, Beer, and His Electric Mustang
• Sudan is sliding towards civil war
• The US Senate Wants to Rein In AI. Good Luck With That
• Birds are just as fashion-conscious as people
• The best films of 2021
• What causes elephant poaching?
• Where the Hell Is Instagram's Twitter Clone?
• China Restricts Exports of Two Minerals Used in High-Performance Chips
• A war correspondent's intimate portrait of an embattled minority
• Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time
• Rampant jihadists are spreading chaos and misery in the Sahel
• A Captured Russian Soldier's Story: 'They Just Sent Us to Die'
• Ben Wallace says he is out of the race for NATO's top job
• How to Keep Muscles Strong as You Age
• Why self-storage is turning into hot property
• USAID is changing the way it tries to do good in the world
• As they cut back on hiring, Arab bureaucracies are spending more to get less
• Thich Nhat Hanh believed that Buddhism should be a force for change
• Personal Data Collection: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Why Xi Jinping is not another Chairman Mao
• India leads a boom in orders for passenger jets
• Multilateral Man Is More Powerful Than Putin Realized
• Mikhail Gorbachev did not mean the Soviet Union to end that way
• How generative models could go wrong
• Adobe-Figma Deal Faces U.K. Scrutiny
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin's real mother
• The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
• Jean-Jacques Savin wanted to defy old age
• Can the debt-ceiling deal hold?
• Britain needs to embrace road pricing
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Obituary: Colin Powell thought America should tread carefully in the world
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• The battle for Europe's economic soul
• Japan's prime minister has recovered from a rough patch
• KAL's cartoon
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• Perils grow as America and Russia stop sharing data on nukes
• School-voucher schemes are spreading across America
• Obituary: Mikis Theodorakis wrote the theme tune of "Zorba the Greek"
• America's debt-ceiling deal means it should now avoid Armageddon
• There's No Such Thing as an RFK Jr. Voter
• Will the recent banking chaos lead to an economic crash?
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• India's solar power rollout is flagging
• China's Brain Drain Threatens Its Future
• How many people died after China lifted its zero-covid policy?
• Xiongan is Xi Jinping's pet project
• Pour-Over Coffee Is a Hassle. Can a $699 Machine Make Mornings Easier?
• The Ugandan state unlawfully detains a novelist
• Folding Phone Battle: Google Pixel Fold vs. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold
• The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke
• Ukraine's top guns need new jets to win the war
• What TIM's mega-spin-off reveals about Europe's telecoms industry
• How grassroots schemes are helping England's non-white cricketers
• Anonymous tipsters, angry at Russia, help detect sanctions-busters
• Current Mortgage Rates for July 5, 2023: Rates Trend Upward - CNET
• F.W. de Klerk had to abandon what his ancestors had believed in
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• How America plans to break China's grip on African minerals
• Does the tank have a future?
• Antarctic sea ice has shrunk by an area nine times the size of Britain
• Violent crime in America
• LSMS - Linux Security And Monitoring Scripts
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Huge Power and Potential Danger of AI-Generated Code
• Recovery from Turkey's earthquake will take years
• In much of Asia, race is just too hard to talk about
• Can downtown densification rescue Cleveland?
• Latin America's prisons are overcrowded and violent
• Supply chains are back to normal. Why is inflation still so high?
• Obituary: Bernard Tapie, a colourful and controversial French businessman
• Revealed: UK plans to drop flagship £11.6bn climate pledge
• Why you have an accent in a foreign language
• Oracle is making Larry Ellison the world's third-richest man
• Yusef Salaam Is Declared Winner of Harlem City Council Primary Race
• Peaks and valleys: how reconnecting with nature helped me with grief
• Dictators and utopians are fond of fiddling with constitutions
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• China's guarding of genetic data is a drag on scientific research
• Forensia - Anti Forensics Tool For Red Teamers, Used For Erasing Footprints In The Post Exploitation Phase
• Mukesh Ambani returns to the spotlight
• Adidas's only female executive board member quits as exodus grows
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• Perilous migrant crossings of the Mediterranean are rising
• Why Republicans are giving huge pay rises to teachers
• Women's Ashes: England v Australia, second T20 – live
• In 2021 our writers considered technology, meritocracy and the trans debate
• After half a century, there is a commercial market for Moon missions
• Ukraine's gay soldiers fight Russia—and for their rights
• Clop Hacking Rampage Hits US Agencies and Exposes Data of Millions
• The end of Western naivety about China
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• Lighthouse lights are losing their sweep
• Britain's semiconductor strategy shows the bind the country is in
• Acidifying the air may protect against covid
• Why wretched Lebanese are fleeing across the sea
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• China's cancel culture is nationalist, not woke
• For Hannah Pick-Goslar, paths crossed in an extraordinary way
• Twitter says it couldn't tell people about rate limiting in advance
• Ticks Use This One Neat Trick to Help Them Suck Your Blood, Study Finds
• Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law
• The wind-turbine industry should be booming. Why isn't it?
• China has not done enough to halt the wildlife trade
• Colm Toibin's new novel brings Thomas Mann to life
• Small-town Chinese officials are making money with music festivals
• Anne Saxelby was a champion of artisan farmers and their wares
• Questions surround a gun attack on Argentina's vice-president
• 28 Best Fourth of July Sales: Couches, Bidets, and TVs
• The Complete History And Future of Robots
• China is unusually secretive about its space programme
• How Russia dodges diesel sanctions
• Where did woke ideas start to spread?
• A new English version of "The Arabian Nights" is the first by a woman
• 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: July 2023
• America's states are pursuing their own foreign policies
• Forget Teslas, India's EV revolution is happening on two wheels
• Chicago's new mayor has one of the trickiest jobs in politics
• Elon Musk Seeks Support Against Rules on Free Speech Online
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• AI Could Change How Blind People See the World
• A step towards a contraceptive pill for men?
• New forms of debt restructuring reward bad behaviour
• Gradually, the besieged city of Bakhmut is being abandoned by everyone
• Narendra Modi's ultimate test—educating 265m pupils
• Britain is liberalising its stockmarket-listing rules, again
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• "Scaling People" is a textbook piece of management writing
• Covid-19 has pushed governments to find new ways to help the poor
• Plunge in Russia's energy revenues weighs on rouble
• Nayib Bukele wants to abolish term limits in El Salvador
• What shipwrecked insects reveal about life at sea in the 17th century
• Life and death in a Christmas tree
• Europe's next inflation victim? Sugary treats
• Bernard Haitink believed that genius should speak for itself
• Human diets are becoming less diverse, a new book warns
• What does Xi Jinping want from Vladimir Putin?
• U.S. Is Top Investment Destination Despite Falling Inflows
• Southern Baptists are arguing about the extent of male authority
• The US Senate Wants to Rein In AI. Good Luck With That
• Foreign airlines in Nigeria are frustrated by the blocking of their funds
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be Brazil's next president
• Why Vladimir Putin is not a pariah in China
• South-East Asia is crying out for regional leadership
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• Tesla Gears Up for Battle With Gasoline Cars
• Erdogan's empire
• China's latest attempt to rally the world against Western values
• One year after Dobbs, America's pro-life movement is in flux
• 5 Ways to Make Your Instant Messaging More Secure
• OnePlus Nord 3 delivers a 120Hz screen and 80W fast charging
• July has already seen 11 mass shootings. The emotional scars won't heal easily
• India and Pakistan are choking on each other's pollution
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Monday Was Literally Earth's Hottest Day Ever Recorded, Then Tuesday Happened
• 4 Killed and 7 Wounded in Shooting at July 4 Party in Louisiana
• Meta's Twitter rival Threads won't initially launch in the EU
• Meet Pause AI, the Protest Group Campaigning Against Human Extinction
• Taiwan's dominance of the chip industry makes it more important
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Weak commitments from the G20 cast a shadow over COP26's opening
• CVC raises $800mn loan fund in sign of thaw for corporate borrowers
• Republican party tweets Independence Day well-wishes with flag of Liberia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Hormone tests for women's fertility seem not to work
• Hong Kong-born singer Coco Lee dies by suicide aged 48, siblings confirm
• Is China's recovery about to stall?
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• Guam, where America's next war may begin
• Why Venetians are pondering raising their entire city
• Fourth of July marked in the US – in pictures
• Ko Jimmy was determined to make Myanmar free
• Cristina Calderón was the only full-blooded member of her people
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• Why Baghdad may have the worst traffic in the Middle East
• 'Double agents': fossil-fuel lobbyists work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis
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• Science Reveals How to Roll the Perfect Joint
• Mortgage Refinance Rates on July 5, 2023: Rates Increase - CNET
• China's Chip Industry Braces for Further Sanctions With Concerns and Defiance
• Antarctic rocks can help sort stone tools from natural lookalikes
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The touchy-feely world of the metaverse and future gadgets
• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
• Sphere testing its giant LED video dome in Las Vegas
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• Short Novels to Dip Into This Summer
• More evidence that animals reduce childhood allergies
• Higher-for-Longer Rates Are a Debt Threat. Investors Don't Want to Hear It Yet.
• Mary Quant launched the clothes that made the Sixties swing
• Will we ever know how many people died of covid-19 in China?
• A flare-up of violence in the Middle East
• How the Iraq war bent America's army out of shape
• Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life
• It is time to divert Taiwan's trade and investment from China
• The Musk-Zuckerberg social-media smackdown
• The West struggles to respond forcefully to Russia's war in Ukraine
• The cost of the global arms race
• My Balls-Out Quest to Achieve the Perfect Scrotum
• The Fed and Investors Could All Be Wrong on Rates
• Indian police bulldoze home of man accused of urinating on Indigenous youth
• Should I Use an AI to Write My Wedding Toast?
• Better Ways Than BMI to Measure Obesity
• Saudi Arabia is reconciling with regimes it once tried to topple
• After a decade of SNP dominance, Scotland's politics is suddenly in flux
• El Niño plus climate change means record-breaking heat
• Russia could take Bakhmut within weeks
• Obituary: Jean "Binta" Breeze spoke for all Jamaican women
• Latin America's left-wing presidents risk stoking inflation
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• In America, school test results are still lagging behind pre-covid levels
• Mosquitoes, wasps and parasitic worms could help make injections less painful
• How to stop the killing
• Britons love country fairs. Why?
• Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• "Spencer", Pablo Larraín's Princess Diana fable, is less than the sum of its parts
• KAL's cartoon
• A winter drought grips southern Europe
• The US Navy, NATO, and NASA Are Using a Shady Chinese Company's Encryption Chips
• Riding the slow train in China
• Brazil's next president will face a big, tricky in-tray
• Who does Olaf Scholz listen to?
• How Your Real Flight Reservation Can Be Used to Scam You
• Javier Milei, an Argentine libertarian, is rising in the polls
• Egyptians are disgruntled with President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi
• Generative AI in Games Will Create a Copyright Crisis
• Industrial Revolution iron method 'was taken from Jamaica by Briton'
• BioNTech's boss, Ugur Sahin, remains sanguine about Omicron
• The Wagner mutiny has left Putin dangerously exposed
• The fading charms of Britain's historic cinemas
• Tourist from England accused of carving name in Colosseum says he did not realise its age
• Why Chairman Mao's victims are denied justice
• Regime change
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will oversee a more divided Brazil
• Sergio Massa is the only thing standing between Argentina and chaos
• Copper is the missing ingredient of the energy transition
• India's diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history
• Military briefing: Ukraine provides ideal 'testing ground' for western weaponry
• Ecuador's president dissolves Congress to avoid impeachment
• A new study asks whether racehorses have hit their genetic peak
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• How much longer will America's regional banks hold up?
• Latin American cities are becoming far nicer for poorer inhabitants
• Middle-class Sri Lankans are fleeing their country
• Watch Baby Octopuses Hatch from a Surprising Deep-Sea Nursery
• Hong Kong Arrests Four Accused of Aiding Overseas Activists
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• Ibrahim Mahama and the art of resurrection
• The modular Fairphone 4 arrives in the US for the first time
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• Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-covid forecasts
• Reclaiming Real American Patriotism
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• Inflation and rising demands on governments are changing economic policy
• Why the Omicron variant is not a punishment for vaccine inequity
• American religion is becoming less exceptional
• Ukrainian advances on Donetsk and Zaporizhia can be seen from space
• China goes from zero-covid to zero restrictions
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• Tuesday was world's hottest day on record – breaking Monday's record
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• Canada's wildfires have burnt an area 16 times larger than normal
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• Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation
• The 3 Best Smart Displays (2023): Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa
• Ukraine gets its F-16s
• Joe Biden fires the starting gun on the presidential race
• Sweden wants to build an entire city from wood
• The difficulties facing Britain's covid-19 inquiry
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• Lula's foreign-policy ambitions will be tempered by circumstances
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• Amazon's Echo Dot drops to an all-time low of $23 in early Prime Day deal
• Hollywood's writers go on strike
• Why short prison sentences in England and Wales are a disaster
• Reddit Won't Be the Same. Neither Will the Internet
• Big pharma's patent cliff is fast approaching
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• On China, Japan's PM wants diplomacy, not war
• Have We Found Fragments of a Meteor from Another Star?
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• How fast can European steelmakers decarbonise?
• China's prime minister, Li Keqiang, is about to retire
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• Saudi Arabia set to launch multibillion-dollar sports investment group
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• Can America's stockmarket rally last?
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• Could the 14th Amendment fix America's debt-ceiling debacle?
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• Can Xi Jinping control AI without crushing it?
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• Weather Warning Inequity: Lack of Data Collection Stations Imperils Vulnerable People
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• Turkey's Kurds are joining the coalition to oust Erdogan
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• Some Hospitals That Spent Big on Nurses Are Now Short on Cash
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• Alexander Lukashenko is the clearest beneficiary of Wagner's mutiny
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• Rebuilding Ukraine will require money, but also tough reforms
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• Kremlin denies China's president urged Putin not to use nuclear arms in Ukraine
• The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke
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• More and more Americans are gaming the deposit-insurance system
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• China wants the world to forget about its crimes in Xinjiang
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• Greece's prime minister wins an election, but lacks a majority
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• Why Israel is becoming a partisan cause in the United States
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• Ill-Advised Witcher Ad Campaign Really Wants You to Remember Henry Cavill's Not Gone Yet
• The Chinese Communist Party plans to avoid a zero-covid reckoning
• Paula Rego was a painter of rage, longing and loneliness
• What happens if America defaults on its debt?
• Jiang Zemin oversaw a wave of economic change, but not much political reform
• Inside the First Youth-Led Climate Lawsuit to Go to Trial
• America's closest Indo-Pacific allies are cosying up
• What America does after a debt-ceiling disaster
• The US Version of the Repairable Fairphone Might Not Be Worth Repairing
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One review – Tom Cruise does it better
• Can Australia break China's monopoly on critical minerals?
• Sanna Marin concedes defeat in Finland
• Rural Africans are finding work beyond their farms
• America is unusually bad at clearing up homicides
• The best memes of 2021
• Everything We Know About Threads, Instagram's Twitter Killer App
• England should take chance to move on but fire of Ashes outrage still burns | Ali Martin
• Microsoft-Activision Hearing Wraps Up as FTC Tries to Stop Deal
• Labour's green industrial policy will not cure Britain's economic ills
• Britain's tax take is getting bigger but not better
• A big advance in mapping the structure of the brain
• Temperatures of 50°C will become much more common around the Mediterranean
• Ready, player four billion: the rise of video games
• A better way of keeping mosquitoes at bay is under development
• A changing car industry should result in more choice and better motoring
• Many thousands of Africans have disappeared in conflict
• Why are corporate retreats so extravagant?
• Air Quality Worsened Nationwide After Fireworks Displays
• One Shot of a Kidney Protein Gave Monkeys a Brain Boost
• Energy & Utilities Roundup: Market Talk
• How the Pentagon thinks about America's strategy in the Pacific
• Best Early Walmart Plus Week Deals Worth Buying Now - CNET
• KAL's cartoon
• A digital payments revolution in India
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• An expert on civil war issues a warning about America
• Is the global housing slump over?
• Suicide Squad ISEKAI Sends the Hitmen Into an Anime Fantasy
• Development finance needs to be bolder
• The Omicron variant advances at an incredible rate
• The Wild World of Extreme Tourism for Billionaires
• After silencing critics at home, Narendra Modi goes after foreign media
• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
• America is lavishing attention on Pacific island states
• Why markets can never be made truly safe
• Abortions have become 6% rarer since the end of Roe v Wade
• Young Africans are logging in and clocking on
• Cannabis: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Tell us: have you quit dating apps?
• You Can't Access Pornhub in Mississippi or Virginia Anymore
• Arab tourism to Israel is still thwarted by politics and Palestine
• KAL's cartoon
• Why aren't China and America more afraid of a war?
• Women take over France's powerful trade unions
• Vladimir Putin says the world's energy infrastructure is "at risk"
• Russia and Iran are upgrading their transport links
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• Truss Tour: 2023
• Business
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• How to make it big in Xi Jinping's China
• A new exhibition shows the visual debt Disney owes to European art
• David Adjaye steps back from roles over sexual misconduct allegations
• Honduras families seek answers after women die in prison riot – video report
• A new world order seeks to prioritise security and climate change
• It's the Age of Ozempic. Do We Need WeightWatchers Anymore?
• In its tech war with America, China brings out the big guns
• A battle against spies in China is spooking locals and foreigners
• It is getting even harder for Western scholars to do research in China
• 'Thanks for visiting Florida': one Black family's road trip to a 'hostile' tourist trap
• China is now an unlikely safe haven
• Announcing the SaaS Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
• Many of China's top politicians were educated in the West
• A prisoner swap is a symbolic step towards ending the Saudi-led war in Yemen
• North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7bn of crypto last year
• The Economist's UK election poll tracker
• EGYM, the Munich-based smart fitness startup, raises $225M from Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners
• Meet the lefty Europeans who want to shrink the economy
• As Britons grow more unhappy with Brexit, what happens next?
• Life in Kherson after the Kakhovka dam's collapse
• Britain is falling behind in clinical trials of medicines
• Hebe de Bonafini lived through the lives of her sons
• Western lenders may regret forcing Ukraine to turn to the IMF
• Who are the militias raiding Russia's Belgorod region?
• Can a political underdog save Nigeria?
• Why Sequoia Capital is sawing off its Chinese branch
• Reproduction without sex is more common than scientists thought
• Vladimir Putin's courts are stepping up repression
• Sriracha Prices Explode on eBay Amid Year-Long Shortage
• Pressurised natural caves could offer a home from home on the Moon
• Mexico's president gives power and money to the armed forces
• Italy's protected sectors need exposure to more competition
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Philadelphia Mass Shooting: What to Know About the Suspect and Victims
• House Republicans are no closer to tying Hunter Biden's activities to Joe
• The financial system is slipping into state control
• Barry Humphries, creator and manager of Dame Edna Everage, died on April 22nd, aged 89
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• Ukraine's assault in Zaporizhia may be the focus of its offensive
• This Hurricane Season Depends on a Showdown in the Atlantic
• How intrepid Victorian surveyors mapped the length and breadth of Britain
• Lung cancer diagnoses of UK women to outnumber men's for first time
• Edinburgh festival 2023: 50 shows to see
• People in France: share your views and experience of protests against police
• Barnes & Noble Keeps the Nook on Life Support With the New GlowLight 4 Plus
• How long will the travel boom last?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's new GDP figures may restore faith in its economy
• Japan's hot-spring resorts are blocking geothermal energy plants
• COP26 ends with a pact that is neither a triumph nor a trainwreck
• Columbia University ditches the college-ranking system
• Politics
• Would Labour turn to the left in office?
• Why commodity-trading scandals are multiplying
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan is favoured to win Turkey's presidential election
• The Psychic Toll of Class Mobility
• El Salvador's authoritarian president is becoming a regional role model
• Firms search for greener supplies of graphite for EV batteries
• Russia's missile attacks on Ukraine have been ineffective
• Nearly all Louisiana's death-row inmates have filed for clemency
• On screen, Father Christmas cuts a mercurial figure
• How Christopher Nolan Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
• How Europe is spluttering its way to better air quality
• How Susceptible Are You to Misinformation? There's a Test You Can Take
• Gene-editing has created a generation of musical crops
• Why Kenya could take the lead in carbon removal
• Tough language from Xi Jinping belies his anxiety
• How the state could take control of the banking system
• A New York jury will be asked if Donald Trump is a rapist
• After Credit Suisse's demise, attention turns to Deutsche Bank
• Bertrand Russell and "The Problem of China"
• The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech
• Missing Israeli-Russian academic being held in Iraq by militia group
• Complexities of moderating and classifying video games
• The world's oil-price benchmark is being radically reformed
• Covid-19 is tearing through China
• Health Care Isn't the Key to a Healthy Population
• Love That Song? Buy Shares in It
• South Korea has a plan to end its forced-labour feud with Japan
• The best television shows of 2021
• The Arctic's Permafrost-Obsessed Methane Detectives
• Secret Service Says Cocaine Was Found at White House
• Antidepressants are over-prescribed, but genuinely help some patients
• Exhaust Yourself Watching Tom Cruise Sprint in Every Mission: Impossible Movie
• Europe has shaken off Putin's gas embargo
• Britain plays catch-up in a global scramble for critical minerals
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• What the First Republic deal means for America's banks
• 'It has lost its appeal': Canary Wharf faces an uncertain future
• Aboard Britain's first commercial self-driving bus
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• Small climate projects cannot take the place of all large ones
• Twitter's Challenges Heat Up as Meta Prepares Rival App
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• Jessamine Chan's gripping debut novel sends up modern parenting
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• Attack of the feral parakeets in New York
• "The Harder They Fall" offers a new take on the Old West
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• If the world loves forests, it should put a price on their carbon
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• How to escape China's property crisis
• A Newly Named Group of GRU Hackers is Wreaking Havoc in Ukraine
• The Supreme Court declines to upend American election law
• How to ask for a bribe without asking for a bribe
• Erotic statues in Peru are challenging taboos
• Leaders of Islamic State have a short life-expectancy
• How the mutiny in Russia will shape the battlefield in Ukraine
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan is re-elected as Turkey's president
• Wilfa Uniform Coffee Grinder Review: Great for Everything but Espresso
• As China fixes its property mess, can foreign capitalists benefit?
• After 20 years of trauma, Iraq is struggling to recover
• Most children in poor countries are being failed by their schools
• Pelé went from poverty to football superstardom
• Investors brace for a painful crash into America's debt ceiling
• Some Fed Officials Supported Raising Rates in June
• KAL's cartoon
• With Hollywood on strike, foreign shows enjoy the limelight
• Joan Didion's radical curiosity
• Google Pixel Fold review: the slick phone-tablet hybrid with killer camera
• Business
• An acrimonious debate about covid's origins will rumble on
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Lula wants to purge Brazil of Jair Bolsonaro's influence
• Ring's early Prime Day deals include an Echo Show 5 bundle for just $65
• Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter
• Japan is nostalgic for a past that was in part worse than its present
• Wi-Fi signals could prove useful for spies
• Turbulence is getting worse. So is my fear of flying. Can I cure it in time for a wedding?
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• The world's most, and least, democratic countries in 2022
• Twitter Limits Number of Posts Users Can Read
• Sierra Leone's president is re-elected in the first round
• External shocks have hit the Italian economy hard
• Turkey sits at the crossroads of tectonic plates as well as civilisations
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Insects could help turn beer waste into beef
• Anoint my caverns with oil
• A better way to process encrypted data
• China's young want to work. For the government
• Politics will move further to the left in 2023
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• Jihadists in Congo are extending their reach in the region
• The Gravitational Pull of Supervising Kids All the Time
• India's once-troubled banks are generating huge profits
• Sir Keir Starmer on "Starmerism"
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Overstock Shares Go Overboard on Bed Bath & Beyond Name
• America will struggle to pay for ultra-expensive gene therapies
• America returns to containment to deal with Russia and China
• Children's centres in Britain are crammed again
• San Francisco's "woke maths" experiment
• How the war split the mafia
• How China sees Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny
• Micronesia takes on China
• How should Britain reform rape-trial laws?
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• The PGA agrees to team up with its golfing arch-enemy
• After debt-ceiling negotiations, America faces a debt deluge
• The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world
• The view from the front line between Taiwan and China
• Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson longed to give Hitler a bloody nose
• In North Carolina a jilted husband can sue his wife's lover
• Gfycat, the Snap-owned GIF hub, shuts down on September 1
• It is make or break for Intel's giant bet on Germany
• Russians have helped make Dubai's property market red hot—again
• Best Blenders (2023): Jug, Hand, Immersion
• 'He lived by the troll, he dies by the troll': Putin takes on Prigozhin's business empire
• Scanner-and-Patcher - A Web Vulnerability Scanner And Patcher
• Tom Cruise Won't Stop Making Mission: Impossible Movies Anytime Soon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Smoking Causes Coughing review – cigarette-superhero comedy is refreshingly immature
• How a rescue turned to regret in Bed Bath & Beyond's bankruptcy
• New technology could cement Indonesia's dominance of vital nickel
• Kyriakos Mitsotakis returns to the Greek prime minister's office
• What to make of China's military drills around Taiwan
• Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars
• Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to try to stop the Vietnam war
• Carmen Callil changed British reading habits for ever
• The ocean is as important to the climate as the atmosphere
• The boss of Britain's spies speaks
• OpenAI is forming a new team to bring 'superintelligent' AI under control
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Meet the Psychedelic Boom's First Responders
• Elderly populations mean more government spending
• Between hope and hype for Toyota's 'solid-state' EV batteries
• Wagner rebels turn against Putin's army
• Bob Dole believed in hard work, not words
• Adam Mosseri says Meta's Threads app won't have ActivityPub support at launch
• The trouble with reality in fiction
• Private therapy in Britain is booming and largely unregulated
• Ukrainians have grown used to living with curfews
• Why Asia's super-app companies are stuck in a rut
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is not paying off
• Apple's Vision Pro is a technical marvel. Will anyone buy it?
• Bank Deals Are Back on the Table. Getting One Done Could Be Messy.
• Europe's freakish winter heatwave breaks records
• Our Big Mac index can predict the future (sort of)
• Refugee-friendly Canada tightens its border with the United States
• Conservative Americans are building a parallel economy
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• Text AI Art Generators Hinder Artists More Than Help Them
• South Korea still refuses to send arms to Ukraine
• How to Actually Find Good Recipes Online
• The inflation problem will get better before it gets worse
• Press freedom is under attack
• Sacking Tucker Carlson has put a dent in Fox News's ratings
• Co-ordinated rocket salvoes suggest Israel's old enemies are reuniting
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• To tip or not to tip? Three reasons why tipping has gotten so out of control
• What online-search data say about China's latest covid wave
• Nvidia is not the only firm cashing in on the AI gold rush
• 'Pikmin 4' Is the Perfect Excuse to Chill Out and Stay In
• Uzbekistan's president clings to power while passing liberal reforms
• At Last, There's Evidence of Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Why do Democrats keep helping Trump?
• Webb Telescope Spots Potential Fuel for Early Universe in Supernovae Debris
• Zelenskyy warns of Russian threat to 'attack' Ukraine nuclear power plant
• Can Ukraine capitalise on chaos in Russia?
• California may punt on paying reparations to the descendants of slaves
• ChatGPT's Storytelling Chops Are No Match for Dungeons & Dragons
• Autherine Lucy was an unlikely pioneer
• Tree-felling is at the centre of disputes across Britain
• Obituary: Clive Sinclair foresaw the future too soon
• The conflict in Ukraine risks inflaming the Sino-American rivalry
• Who is keeping coal alive?
• 5 Uses for ChatGPT that Aren't Fan Fiction or Cheating at School
• Israel launches its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years
• Samsung should be wary of Intel-like complacency
• Britain plans new guidance on sex and gender in schools
• 5 Uses for ChatGPT that Aren't Fan Fiction or Cheating at School
• The Iraqi militias are copying their overmighty cousins in Iran
• America accuses South Africa of sending arms to Russia
• British voters want more immigrants but less immigration
• Best Camera Phone of 2023 - CNET
• There's more than one way to spay a cat
• Fear of China is pushing India and Japan into each other's arms
• Why Chinese carmakers are eyeing Thailand
• European banks and the price of safety
• AI Could Change How Blind People See the World
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• The origin of grapevines is a tangled vine itself
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• If enough people think you're a bad boss, then you are
• The energy transition will be expensive
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• The battle with China is psychological as much as physical
• Spanish minister proposes €20,000 'universal inheritance' from age of 18
• Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI
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• The Dominion lawsuit showed the limits of Fox's influence over its audience
• Meet Asia's millennial plutocrats
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• Could digital-payments systems help unseat the dollar?
• Georgia, the Peach State, has no peach crop this year
• For the first time since the 1960s, China's population is shrinking
• How Japan is losing the global electric-vehicle race
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• Thanks to the Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland is a better place
• China hopes Mazu, a sea goddess, can help it win over Taiwan
• A critical genetic database is under fire
• The Qatar World Cup shows how football is changing
• The cult of Li Wenliang, the doctor who spotted covid-19
• As Lula takes over, Brazil's economic prospects are looking up
• Much of the Earth remains unexplored
• Covid learning loss has been a global disaster
• Latin America's left-wing experiment is a warning to the world
• Lawsuits aimed at greenhouse-gas emissions are a growing trend
• Tunisia's autocratic ruler adopts the "Great Replacement" theory
• The green revolution will stall without Latin America's lithium
• Brazil's presidential election will go to a run-off
• New Jersey Judge Investigated for Posting 'Racist' And 'Explicit' Lip-Syncing Videos on TikTok
• Pornhub Accused of Illegal Data Collection
• U.S. maternal deaths keep rising. Here's who is most at risk
• A Massive Vaccine Database Leak Exposes IDs of Millions of Indians
• 'A Wake Up Call': The World Needs to Prepare for Massive Crop Failure
• The pandemic has accelerated a global decline in the rule of law
• Much of Russia's intellectual elite has fled the country
• Sean Baker's films bring sex work into the light
• EV Charger Hacking Poses a 'Catastrophic' Risk
• Wagner Mutiny Puts Russia's Military Bloggers on a Razor's Edge
• Peru's political chaos looks likely to persist
• Carolyn Bryant's was the testimony that doomed Emmett Till
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• South Korea, having sworn to lead the green transition, is holding it up
• Stock Futures Tick Lower; Oil Prices Rise
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• Which will grow faster: India or Indonesia?
• Higher Public Debt Levels Could Hinder Fiscal Spending
• As AI cheating booms, so does the industry detecting it: 'We couldn't keep up with demand'
• A "Divine Comedy" ballet, 700 years after Dante's death
• Spanish voters seem to hanker after stable centrist government
• US Supreme Court Hands Cyberstalkers a First Amendment Victory
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• This week's covers
• Press freedom is stifled in Guatemala ahead of an election
• Environments can affect language—just not how you think
• Did Israel's Military Incursion in the West Bank Solve Anything?
• Nikki Haley, like other long shots, sees a path to victory
• We're hiring a new Washington correspondent
• The mother of neurodiversity: how Judy Singer changed the world
• India will soon overtake China as the world's most populous country
• How much is a human head?
• US Spies Are Buying Americans' Private Data. Congress Has a Chance to Stop It
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• France moved quickly to evacuate civilians from Sudan
• How to Survive a Devastating Earthquake—and Firestorm
• Kevin Spacey grabbed man 'like a cobra', UK court hears
• 'Stop killing us': protesters march in Poland after pregnant woman dies in hospital – video
• A decades-old model of animal (and human) learning is under fire
• How rare-gas supply adapted to Russia's war
• Meet the Humans Trying to Keep Us Safe From AI
• "Don't Look Up", Adam McKay's political farce, is bleakly realistic
• The woman at the heart of Europe
• Why economics does not understand business
• Atheism is still a taboo for American politicians
• The death of Silvio Berlusconi creates uncertainty for his party
• How China's police are ensnaring thousands of suspects abroad
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Gloria Allen ran a charm school for young trans women
• 'It's Wimbledon, it rains': fatalism rather than frustration for players
• How to Actually Find Good Recipes Online
• Belarus's beleaguered opposition is flirting with violence
• Janet Yellen heads to China, seeking to ease tensions between the two economic powers
• Turkey's President Erdogan shifts towards sane economics
• Commercial-property losses will add to banks' woes
• Macron accused of authoritarianism after threat to cut off social media
• Wayne Sleep at 75: 'Did Rudolf Nureyev pinch my bum? More than that'
• The potential and the plight of the middle manager
• Man City v Inter Milan is the most lopsided final in Champions League history
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• America's far right is increasingly protesting against LGBT people
• Japan is making asylum even harder for refugees
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Iran puts its nuclear programme beyond the reach of American bombs
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• The machine that runs Britain's state needs an overhaul
• The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement
• Spain's prime minister gambles on a snap general election
• America avoids financial Armageddon but stays in fiscal hell
• How an east African country became an odd sort of global powerhouse
• Santiago Peña, a former economist, is Paraguay's next president
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• How to make low-carbon concrete from old cement
• Carl Bernstein's memoir traces his path to Watergate
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